“Government perceived as soft on immigration because of Campbell” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell said yesterday the Minnis administration has been perceived as being soft on illegal migration largely.  This is because one of its Cabinet ministers was not only a product of that source, but has acted as a liaison for the Haitian community and the Free National Movement (FNM).

‘So it sent out a signal that once the FNM got in power that this whole situation of enforcement was going to ease,’ said Mitchell, a former immigration minister.”

This is is typical example of what happens when you cannot put a decent, logical thought together and continue to produce to what amounts to nothing more than what a lot of persons call ‘brain farts’.

Exactly what is Senator Fred Mitchell suggesting here? 

Is he suggesting that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) would never consider running a candidate with the background of Frankie Campbell?

Is Senator Mitchell suggesting that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) would never consider running the product of two illegal migrants?

Is he further suggesting, by extension, that a product of two illegal migrants cannot be a productive citizen of The Bahamas and should never be considered for high office?

What I find fundamentally flawed about this commentary by Senator Mitchell is that he is seeming to suggest that the present administration is being perceived as being soft on immigration because it ran Frankie Campbell in the first place, this seems to come very close to the xenophobic language that they [the Progressive Liberal Party] used during the election campaign but it just turns out to be just plain stupid or maybe it is both.

Senator Mitchell goes on to make these claims and the point that he is trying to make is actually lost in the ignorance of the message; as the point is an ignorant one, produced by an ignorant mind.  It would seem that Senator Mitchell is attempting to make a correlation between the two recent landings of illegal migrants and Minister Frankie Campbell being a Member of Parliament but there is no logical connection to be made, so he stands on a point of ignorance.

While we are on the subject of immigration and the perception of the present government being viewed as being soft on immigration, maybe the former Minister of Immigration would like to answer the questions being raised in another story in The Nassau Guardian; “RBDF: Sloop waited for patrol window – Patrols of western end of island only started again recently”, except from this article; “A Haitian sloop that made landfall three nautical miles west of the Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) base likely waited for a window of opportunity before coming ashore as the force had been patrolling that area just hours earlier, RBDF Commodore Tellis Bethel said yesterday.

Bethel, who spoke with The Nassau Guardian, said the only recently resumed patrolling the western portion of New Providence after being told to by the former administration to ‘stand down’ from patrolling that area.”

It would be interesting to know, who gave the order and why.

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